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Date Time How Donald Trump has tested ethical limits of presidential pardons President Donald Trump has issued fewer pardons than any president in modern history – and many of them are for conservative political allies who have run afoul of the law, says UC Berkeley historian and legal scholar Daniel Farber. (Flickr photo by Gage Skidmore licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0) The power to grant clemency to people accused or convicted of crimes is one of the broadest powers granted to a president under the U.S. Constitution. A president can grant a pardon to override a failure of the justice system, ...

Democrats win Senate control amid Capitol Hill breach, paving the way for $2,000 stimulus check CNET 1/7/2021 Clifford Colby © Provided by CNET The fate of a third stimulus check may well rest with the leadership over the US Senate. Sarah Tew/CNET Democrats will control the Senate, NBC News, CBS News and other news outlets reported on Wednesday after calling the Georgia runoff election for the state's two Senate seats in favor of Democrats. The race was called for Raphael Warnock Wednesday morning and for Jon Ossoff hours later, while Washington, DC grappled with a mob...

Democrats win Senate control amid Capitol Hill breach, paving the way for $2,000 stimulus check CNET 1/7/2021 Clifford Colby © Provided by CNET The fate of a third stimulus check may well rest with the leadership over the US Senate. Sarah Tew/CNET Democrats will control the Senate, NBC News, CBS News and other news outlets reported on Wednesday after calling the Georgia runoff election for the state's two Senate seats in favor of Democrats. The race was called for Raphael Warnock Wednesday morning and for Jon Ossoff hours later, while Washington, DC grappled with a mob...